exasperated - Story 47107 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the fifth time today that she'd had to explain how to send an email with an attachment. The sheer repetition felt like a physical blow. The office was too warm. The air smelled of desperation. Brenda’s shoulders slumped. She wanted to be anywhere but here.

"And then… what?" Her replacement, a young woman named Susan, looked at her with wide, innocent eyes. Brenda forced a smile that felt stretched and unnatural. She could taste the metallic tang of stress in her mouth.

She pointed to the "Attach" icon with a trembling finger. "You click 'Attach,' Susan." Her voice was a strained whisper.

Susan nodded slowly. "And then...?" Brenda just stared at her.

Emotion: exasperated

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -0.99 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.23

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion exasperated. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 exasperated stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the exasperated emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the exasperated vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.435
`l`	0.378
`P`	0.331
`que`	0.320
`la`	0.269

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.433
`gradually`	-0.254
`soon`	-0.248
`unfolding`	-0.216
`joyful`	-0.216